We are happy that there is a wide interest in organization of events for DataEd. These are the members of our team:

Advisory Board Members

  • Sourav Bhowmick, Associate Professor, Nanyang Technological University.
  • Zachary Ives, Department Chair and Adani President's Distinguished Professor of Computer and Information Science, University of Pennsylvania.
  • Michael Liut, Assistant Professor, Teaching Stream, University of Toronto Mississauga.
  • Juan Sequeda, Principal Scientist, data.world.
  • Julia Stoyanovich, Associate Professor, New York University Tandon School of Engineering.
  • Michelle Hoda Wilkerson, Associate Professor, Graduate School of Education, University of California, Berkeley.

Organizing Team

Our active organisers are:

Daphne Miedema

Daphne Miedema (PhD, Eindhoven University of Technology) is an Assistant Professor is an Assistant Professor in the Intelligent Data Engineering Lab at the University of Amsterdam. She has a background in both Computer Science and Engineering as well as Human-Computer Interaction. Her research interest is in the interaction of humans with data, including the educational angle.

 

George Fletcher

George Fletcher (PhD, Indiana University Bloomington) is a Professor of Computer and Data Science at Eindhoven University of Technology, where he chairs the Database Group of the Data and Artificial Intelligence Cluster. His research interests span social aspects of data systems, query language design and engineering, foundations of databases, and data integration. His current research focus is on data education and graph data management.

 

Abdussalam Alawini

Abdussalam Alawini (PhD, Portland State University) is a Teaching Associate Professor in the School of Computing and Data Science at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. His research interests lie broadly in database systems and computing education, with a focus on applying AI technologies to enhance active learning and improve online assessments. His work has been published in several top-tier conferences in data systems (SIGMOD, ICDE) and computing education (SIGMOD, ITiCSe, EDM). Dr. Alawini is highly dedicated to teaching, and his excellence in this area has been recognized with the 2024 Campus Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching Award.

 

Past Members

We thank the following past members for their service towards the DataEd initiative: